Year-End Lists

Dorothy Rabinowitz: The Best Television of 2019, as published by The Wall Street Journal

[see also 2018]

• Das Boot
• For Sama
• Gentleman Jack
• Our Boys
• Press
• The Spy
• Tricky Dick

Sight & Sound Magazine: The Best TV Series of 2019, the results of the Sight & Sound TV Poll

[see also 2021 • 2020]

1. Fleabag
2. Succession
3. Chernobyl
4. Russian Doll
5. Unbelievable
6. When They See Us
7. Mindhunter
8. Years and Years
9. Watchmen
10. Stath Lets Flats

Autostraddle: The Best TV Shows of 2019 with LGBT Women Characters

[see also 2018]

1. Pose
2. Fleabag
3. Jane the Virgin
4. Killing Eve
5. When They See Us
6. The Good Place
7. One Day at a Time
8. Vida
9. A Black Lady Sketch Show
10. Russian Doll
11. Dickinson
12. Sex Education
13. The L Word: Generation Q
14. Gentleman Jack
15. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
16. The Good Fight
17. Broad City
18. Euphoria
19. She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
20. Glow
21. Work in Progress
22. High Maintenance
23. Batwoman
24. Mrs. Fletcher
25. How to Get Away with Murder

Paste Magazine: The 50 Best TV Shows of 2019

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2010s • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

1. Fleabag
2. Succession
3. The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
4. Chernobyl
5. Barry
6. Russian Doll
7. The Good Place
8. Unbelievable
9. Perpetual Grace, LTD
10. When They See Us
11. What We Do in the Shadows
12. Catastrophe
13. The Crown
14. Legends of Tomorrow
15. Counterpart
16. Good Omens
17. Killing Eve
18. I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
19. The Good Fight
20. Glow
21. David Makes Man
22. On Becoming a God in Central Florida
23. Watchmen
24. One Day at a Time
25. Brooklyn Nine-Nine
26. Gentleman Jack
27. The Great British Bake Off
28. Pose
29. Speechless
30. BoJack Horseman
31. Jane the Virgin
32. Lodge 49
33. Back to Life
34. Derry Girls
35. Dead to Me
36. Les Misérables
37. Our Planet
38. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
39. Evil
40. The Umbrella Academy
41. Shrill
42. Veep
43. The Spanish Princess
44. Years and Years
45. Dickinson
46. The Other Two
47. Better Things
48. Stumptown
49. Ramy
50. Sorry for Your Loss

Honorable Mention

• Victoria
• South Side
• The Righteous Gemstones
• Schitt's Creek
• Stranger Things
• Baskets
• Sex Education
• Primal

NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour: Favorite TV Shows Of 2019

[see also 2018]

• Chernobyl
• The Crown
• Dead to Me
• Documentary Now!
• Fleabag
• The Good Place
• Los Espookys
• The Other Two
• Pose
• Russian Doll
• Schitt's Creek
• Shrill
• Succession
• Surviving R. Kelly
• Unbelievable
• Undone
• Watchmen
• When They See Us

Little White Lies: The 25 Best TV Shows of 2019

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2018]

1. Fleabag
2. Succession
3. Russian Doll
4. When They See Us
5. Schitt's Creek
6. Barry
7. Watchmen
8. Fosse/Verdon
9. Unbelievable
10. Mr. Robot
11. Chernobyl
12. Pose
13. Glow
14. Mindhunter
15. Game of Thrones
16. RuPaul's Drag Race UK
17. Stranger Things
18. Derry Girls
19. The Other Two
20. I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
21. Orange is the New Black
22. The End of the F***ing World
23. Tuca & Bertie
24. Euphoria
25. World on Fire

Emily VanDerWerff: The 18 Best TV Shows of 2019, as published by Vox

[see also 2021 • 2010s • 2018 • 2017]

1. Watchmen
2. Fleabag
3. Succession
4. Russian Doll
5. Fosse/Verdon
6. Lodge 49
7. Barry
8. Better Things
9. Mr. Robot
10. David Makes Man
11. Couples Therapy
12. PEN15
13. Pose
14. Chernobyl
15. The Magicians
16. Unbelievable
17. True Detective
18. Stumptown

11 honorable mentions

• Dickinson
• Evil
• Girl Meets Farm
• I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
• One Day at a Time
• Ramy
• Superstore
• Undone
• Vida
• When They See Us
• You’re the Worst

The Guardian: The 50 Best TV Shows of 2019

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020]

1. Succession
2. Fleabag
3. Chernobyl
4. Years and Years
5. The Virtues
6. Unbelievable
7. Russian Doll
8. This Time with Alan Partridge
9. Catastrophe
10. Euphoria
11. Leaving Neverland
12. Top Boy
13. Stath Lets Flats
14. Sex Education
15. Derry Girls
16. What We Do in the Shadows
17. Everybody in the Place: an Incomplete History of Britain 1984-1992
18. Back to Life
19. Ghosts
20. Mum
21. Prince Andrew and the Epstein Scandal: The Newsnight Interview
22. I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
23. When They See Us
24. His Dark Materials
25. The Crown
26. Barry
27. State of the Union
28. The End of the F***ing World
29. The Other Two
30. BoJack Horseman
31. Gentleman Jack
32. This Way Up
33. Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret History
34. Broad City
35. Don't Forget the Driver
36. Game of Thrones
37. The Capture
38. Surviving R. Kelly
39. Mindhunter
40. Watchmen
41. Line of Duty
42. Stranger Things
43. 63 Up
44. Seven Worlds, One Planet
45. Transparent (Musical Finale)
46. Guilt
47. The Curry House Kid
48. The Last Survivors
49. World on Fire
50. Killing Eve

David Bianculli: The Best TV of 2019, as aired on NPR’s Fresh Air

[see also 2020 • 2018 • 2017]

1. The Good Place
2. Legion
3. Black Mirror
4. Fleabag
4. Killing Eve
5. Watchmen
6. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
7. Dead to Me
8. Barry
9. Evil
10. Veep

Special Mentions: Movies and Miniseries

• The Act
• Deadwood: The Movie
• El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
• Years and Years

Special Mentions: Nonfiction

• Leaving Neverland
• 60 Minutes

Decider: Top 20 TV Shows of 2019

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2018]

1. Fleabag
2. Russian Doll
3. Succession
4. Chernobyl
5. Euphoria
6. Schitt's Creek
7. The Righteous Gemstones
8. Watchmen
9. Barry
10. Stranger Things
11. Unbelievable
12. The Good Place
13. PEN15
14. Glow
15. When They See Us
16. Below Deck Mediterranean
17. Tuca & Bertie
18. Superstore
19. I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
20. The OA